We Need You to Register and Vote

Annotation — Civil Rights Songs

- We Need to Be Governed by McGovern (Watkins, Billy) - We Need You to Register and Vote (Watkins, Billy) - Soul. Los Angeles, CA. McGovern, anti-war. - A-side: McGovern believes in peace, civil right, youth. - No more dying in Vietnam - he promised to bring the boys home - B-side: 18 - you can vote now (1972 election). - Returning Vietnam veteran - please register to vote.

Annotation by Justin A. Brummer

Annotation — Peace, Protest, & Anti-War Songs

We Need to Be Governed by McGovern (Watkins, Billy) We Need You to Register and Vote (Watkins, Billy) Soul. Los Angeles, CA. McGovern, anti-war. A-side: McGovern believes in peace, civil right, youth. No more dying in Vietnam - he promised to bring the boys home B-side: 18 - you can vote now (1972 election). Returning Vietnam veteran - please register to vote.

Annotation by Justin A. Brummer

Notes

Kinsman Enterprises, 6565 Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles, California 90028, stereo, 45 R.P.M., blue label with silver print; side 1 BW 001 "We Need to Be Governed by McGovern", 2:08, and side 2 OOK-1 "We Need You to Register and Vote", 3:20, both written and produced by Billy Watkins, Tump's Music, BMI. Blue-tinted picture sleeve: front has a close-up portrait photograph of a smiling man under the title, marked "Stereo" and "© 1972 Kinsman Enterprises, Los Angeles, Calif. 90028"; back has a photograph of a man and a woman in profile. [From the record sleeve and labels]

About the artist

Born Little Rock, Arkansas

Themes

Anti-War · McGovern · Voting Rights

In collections

Civil Rights Songs · Peace, Protest, & Anti-War Songs [War Years] · Soul, Gospel, & Funk Songs